If you are a daily developer like me, but not a release manager, getting called on to do release activities can be a frustrating thing. One of those things can be believing your tool’s view. Be careful – if you’ve updated your git tags – local SourceTree will show git tags at a spot that […]
Localstorage is a newer way to store data locally in a browser, kind of like a cookie. It is supposed to have a much easier interface than cookies and can do JSON. Another developer I know was using this and she was using localstorage to track local data for some dynamic web interactions. Nothing will […]
My brother is a teacher and he sent me a text and a pic of a broken 500gb external drive he uses for simple backups. He was asking the questions a lot of us are asking these days: how to store all of our data, short term/accessible and long term. When I think about the […]
I noticed my package scans were really slow in IntelliJ when starting/stopping my J2EE engines. Real slow. So I upped the memory and it helped a great deal. This was done for IntelliJ 15 Community Edition on OSX El Capitan (10.11.3). First, close IntelliJ of course. Right click the application and choose “Show Package Contents.” Open […]
Sometimes “they” move the location of your git repository. Seems to be happening a lot in my last few years of coding. There are a few ways to deal with this moving, but it is important to remember that git is very, very good at a move situation since every commit is unique and it’s […]
Tonight the meeting was held in the Madison/Waterloo WI area. We shared notes, contacts and techniques for finding remote work. General sentiments: Finding remote work is getting easier. You have to invest in some good gear for making communication easy. The work place in your house/coffee shop: experienced developers thought life/work separation was more important […]
If you ride motorcycles inevitably you’ve had to find parts. One place to buy parts via catalog is Dennis Kirk. If you get the paper catalog you have two choices: A very, very thick catalog for Harleys. In this catalog you can find almost any repair part for Harleys dating back at least 80 years. […]
About 10 years ago I made a mistake I have regretted to this day. I turned down a minimum wage paying job working for Tony Caponi. Anthony Caponi was an artist. He passed away this last fall 2015. He was in his 90’s, humble, and accomplished. As an Italian immigrant who was a boy under Mussolini, […]
Working on a ticket to address a wrong form action url being used for a different page condition, I ran across a curiosity in a jstl tag file. It seems that the value for <c:url> was not resolving in a cascading manner as had been the intended behavior of the initial author. The bit of […]